Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When we hired him in 1992, it was the resultof the search for a person in a quite differentfield and we were so impressed by Marc Hauser'scredentials and promise that we just dropped thecriteria and hired him," DeVore said...
...conspicuously, no mention of perjury. Starr knows that lying about sex is not the stuff of impeachment proceedings. He is more intent on compiling evidence of obstruction: the possibility that Clinton coached secretary Betty Currie on key details of his relationship with Lewinsky, Vernon Jordan's extraordinary job search for her around the time she signed an affidavit denying a presidential affair, and the orphaned "talking points" Lewinsky allegedly handed Linda Tripp, asking her to lie in her deposition. Starr hopes to make obstruction the heart of his report to Congress, not only because it is a grave offense...
FRED GOLDMAN could not be blamed for never wanting to see another TV camera in his life. Yet he has become the latest participant in the O.J. Simpson trial to embrace the medium. He'll host Search for Justice with Fred Goldman, which will appear on UPN later this month. "For me, the word celebrity is offensive," says Goldman. "But people do recognize me. And maybe we can take the horror of losing my son and turn it into something positive." Search, which may be picked up as a series, will examine stories of injustice across America...
...course, no internet search fails to turn up some smut. The "noir" web search lead directly to the "Leather Fetish Consensual SM Magazine"-- boudoirnoir.com--featuring the Boudoir-Noir Online Cafe, where leather fetishists can talk shop to their consensual hearts' delight. This site, which has recorded over 388,000 hits to date, also features a bulletin board advertising important upcoming events; the Leather Leadership Conference next month in New York may be the next big step in the national leather community's fight for freedom...
...award for the most bizarre response to the search for "noir" has to belong to "The Penmaster's Place." The eponymous Penmaster, who appears at the top of the page in his "human disguise," claims to be the self-appointed commander of a master-race of evil penguins who are in a constant guerrilla struggle to take over the universe. At first glance, this seems to be an elaborate front for a psychotic Pittsburgh Penguins fan, but in fact there are far more devious forces at work here. The Penmaster heralds the imminent reign of penguins, which he insists...